Section 32 The Bronze Man
The afterglow of the sunset was scattered on this land that was full of peace and peace two hours ago. At this time, the cracked land seemed to have been soaked in blood. The dead soldiers were carried out one by one and put into the body bags sent by the logistics troops, loaded them one by one onto the carriage one by one, waiting to be transported back to the camp.
Although sacrifices are inevitable when they go into battle, at Xiao Tang's suggestion, all the fallen soldiers were transported back to their main camps for burial as much as possible. The proposal was supported by Wufeng and formed a system. No one expected that this proposal greatly boosted the spirit of all soldiers. Perhaps in their opinion, being able to return to their homes and buried in peace is a affirmation of a soldier's struggle for it. As for the corpses of the enemy side, there is not so much attention. Digging a few big holes is where they settle down.
The battlefield had calmed down. Mingzhu Town, a few miles away, seemed to have not noticed the war here, and everything seemed so step by step. The prisoners were arranged in order and left the battlefield one by one under the close surveillance of the guarded soldiers. Only the soldiers from the logistics department were still cleaning the battlefield.
"Helian, are there any statistics on the results of the battle?" The person who asked was Liang Chongxin, the commander-in-chief of this battle. It seemed that he did not look too happy about the great results of this battle, which made the people next to him feel a little strange.
"There is no big difference. One side has killed 685 people, 979 people seriously injured, and a total of less than 1,700 people were killed and killed. A total of more than 2,200 people were eliminated, and more than 5,800 prisoners were captured. No one missed the net. In addition, 3,800 war horses were seized." Linghu Yi continued the words and replied.
"This time we can win a great victory. I don't know what will happen if the person behind the scenes know the situation?" Qu Bo, the deputy next to Liang Chongxin, looked to the west, and the light of longing for another battle jumped in his eyes. It was obvious that he thought this asymmetric battle was not interesting enough.
"What else can you react? In two situations, either you will be involved in the large army to fight us, or you will come to the messenger to negotiate with us. But I think I will be scared out of my courage after this battle." Linghu Yi shrugged and curled his lips disdainfully.
"Boss Liang, you seem to be not satisfied with our battle?" Helianbo asked when he saw that the coach had something to do.
Shaking his head, Liang Chongxin seemed to be trying to say something, but he seemed to be thinking about something, and finally he didn't say it.
For a moment, several people fell into silence, and no one understood what this tough and steady coach was thinking about.
After a long time, Liang Chongxin opened his mouth and said, "Are you careful? Where is the main part of our damage?"
The coach's words immediately attracted several people's attention, and everyone was silently thinking about the meaning of the coach's words.
"It seems that our main losses are caused by the part of the enemy's rear." Linghu Yi observed carefully, hesitated for a while and said it out.
"I carefully observed the battle situation. The enemy should be composed of two parts. The private soldiers of the nobles accounted for the vast majority. Everyone has seen their combat effectiveness, but the enemy's rear army is their regular army - the Guards. The one who fought with Helian was probably the main general in this escort. Don't underestimate this force. I think their combat effectiveness is not much worse than our troops. I have already learned that this time they only dispatched two guards of a thousand-person cavalry team, probably to facilitate the competition for the spoils. Their general put the guards in the rear army. If the army in front of them had not been scrambled by us and also disrupted the rear army, I believe that our losses would have at least doubled." Liang Chongxin said his opinion calmly.
One word aroused thousands of waves, and the others carefully recalled the coach's words while recalling the scenes on the battlefield.
"But this guard has only two thousand people, and it still caused such great losses to us under extremely passive circumstances. The entire guards in the cloak have a total of 50,000. You can think about what the prospects will be before us?" Liang Chongxin's tone was low, obviously not optimistic about the prospects.
Seeing that the few subordinates were a bit arrogant after the battle, Liang Chongxin felt that it was necessary to remind these confident subordinates, so he said that. However, his words were not exaggerated. The tribal guards of the Zha people did have 50,000 people and were of great strength. But even Liang Chongxin did not know that the two thousand guards were actually the elite of the 50,000 guards, and Namoso was also a famous warrior in the escort. He was the chief of the Zha people who specially sent a special operation team sent by Yunbeng. Unexpectedly, Liang Chongxin and others set up a trap and used their superior forces to fight a siege battle, and ended up being wiped out by the entire army.
"Then how should we deal with it now?" Qu Bo raised his head and asked with some dissatisfaction. The purpose of this battle was to wipe out the enemy army. Now that the battle has been completed, it is impossible to put all the prisoners back and ask for the opponent's solution, right?
"Respond to changes with the same change. We have captured important figures among the people in the Zang people. I think there are several prisoners who will not have a low status among the people in the Zang people. I guess they don't want to see that the fate of these people is a jack, right? What's more, there are thousands of soldiers." Liang Chongxin smiled slightly, and half-closed his eyes.
Somewhere on the embankment construction site on the edge of the Taiping River outside Hanzhong Prefecture City in Guanxi County was like a blowout, and it became noisy.
"Look, it's such a bronze man, how could he have only one eye?" A man with a naked upper body smacked his lips.
"Well, it seems like this has been thousands of years, right?" An old man over fifty years old said curiously while touching the rust on the bronze man.
"I'm afraid it's been thousands of years. I think this is an old antique!" Another middle-aged man answered, with a strange color flashing in his eyes.
"Huh? It seems there are words on it!" A young man said loudly in surprise.
"Laotian, Laotian, you know a few more words, come and take a look." The group of people around there hurriedly greeted an old man standing outside the circle.
"Let me take a look." After everyone separated, the old man snorted and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm. Then he bent down and carefully looked at the bronze man of the same size as the life-sized person.
"Well, it seems to be two lines of poetry!" The old man blinked his eyes and watched seriously.
"Then read it to us." More and more people heard the news, gathered around the river embankment. This was the government recruited people from all over the country to repair the river embankment that was washed away by the flood. Some of them were originally prisoners who were imprisoned in prison, but the bad food and high-intensity labor had already made the group of people complain. However, under the whip of the officials, they had to suppress their dissatisfaction. Seeing that something new on the river embankment, they would not take the opportunity to rush forward and steal for a while. What's more, the officials had already been hiding in the shade to rest.
"Well, let's look, the first sentence is, don't do it with one eye," the old man saw more and more people, and was even more proud, and wanted to show off. "As soon as this thing came out," he could no longer read the next half sentence, his face suddenly became extremely pale, and beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead.
"Huh? Why don't you continue reading?" Everyone next to him stretched their necks and asked impatiently.
"What's going on? Lao Tiantou, don't you boast about yourself well-reading poetry? Why did you stump you?" Several more people started to cheer, "What are the last few words?"
Let the people next to him laugh, but the old man closed his mouth tightly, looked in panic, and got up and wanted to leave.
"Huh? Lao Tiantou, what's wrong with you? You saw the ghost?" Seeing the old man's panic look, everyone around him was puzzled. The people around him were even more curious and surrounded the old man in the middle, blocking him tightly, making it difficult to move forward.
"No, no, old man, I suddenly have a stomachache, I want to go and make some more convenient." Seeing that I couldn't get out of the crowd, the old man was even more panicked and bowed repeatedly, hoping that the people around me would give way.
"It's weird, Lao Tiantou, just reading the last few words will delay you from shit. If you don't pronounce the last few words to everyone today, we won't let you go out!" A sinister smile appeared in the eyes of the big man who had been standing next to the old man, stopping the old man.
"Da Liu, Mr. Liu, please let me go. The following words are unspeakable." Seeing that they couldn't get rid of themselves, some people were worried that the government would find out that the old man was even more nervous and lowered his voice and pleaded with mercy.
"I can't say it? What's the point? No matter how I come, you have to read the last few words to us, otherwise you don't want to leave!" The man called Liu Da shouted to the surroundings: "Everyone said, right?"
Everyone around them followed suit and started to cheer, "Yes! If you don't read it, you won't let him go, and you'll suffocate him to death!"
Seeing that more and more people were getting more and more, the old man was so scared that he was sweating heavily and quickly whispered: "Mr. Liu, the last few words are the heaven---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"What?! God - the lower - the opposite?!" Liu Da deliberately raised his voice to make everyone around him hear it clearly, and he deliberately asked back.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were gathered on him, the old man trembled and almost fainted, but he had to nod his head with his teeth.
Immediately someone connected the two lines of poetry and recited: "Don't let the bronze man have one eye, this thing will turn around the world!" After the two sentences, the river bank suddenly became silent like death. However, someone started to recite it soon, and more and more people recited it, and the voice became louder and louder.
Chapter completed!